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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Marilyn A. Hudson is a library professional with experience in public school, public library and academic settings.

She has taught American history, government, storytelling, and information literacy. Additionally, she has served as consultant to libraries on customer service, general operations, and children's services. She had assisted several groups in the assessment, mission strategy and re-invention process.

As an author and researcher she loves turning over history to see the story long hidden by time, ego, and reputations. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma with degrees in history, library and information studies, she collects arcane tales and has been dubbed the “genie of bizarre history” for her knack of ferreting out the more unusual tidbits of tantalizing historical tales.

She often shares these tales with audiences in storytelling concerts or historic presentations. She has led historic tours - often in costume - of buildings and locations sharing their stories and significance.

Hudson is author of several historical monographs including When Death Rode the Rails, Tales of Hell’s Half Acre, Halloween, and Murderous Marriages.

Her fictional work includes the short story collection The Bones of Summer, short fiction such as the Madame Delaine series, and is co-author of novel The Mound.

Her recent publications include Stories Center Stage, The Sword of Anath, and the upcoming novel Foul Harvest and a true crime collection, Into Oblivion.

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Recommendations

"She demonstrates innovation where needed and change when appropriate. She is confident, yet approachable. She is professional as well as service oriented. "

-- Ken L. Young

"Marilyn is a joy to work with! She is creative and intelligent, and she loves to think outside the box. I worked with Marilyn on a historical project for the university's 60th anniversary."

-- Megan Miles Alba

"She is willing to collaborate on any project that furthers the mission of our school and helps the students. She is a tremendous asset.."

-- Kirk Jackson

"Marilyn is a committed and meticulous worker. She demonstrates innovation and creativity as she continuously seeks to improve the quality of work in her department as well as the organization as a whole."

-- Patty Clouse

"Marilyn A Hudson is a brilliant, creative, multi-talented woman with abilities ranging from publisher, author, storyteller, and educator to woman-of-all-trades."

Learning

We are quickly taking on a bandage approach to information and knowledge. We have an information need and we find the information answer, apply it, and then forget about it. We find information for the test and then it is gone. It is nutrient free information doing the mind no lasting good.

Once students came regularly to the sources of knowledge - not to cram for a test - but to learn about ideas, views and expand their own skills.

The result is a lack of critical thinking, analysis, and little synthesis of information found.

Ideas must be sampled, digested, and allowed to work within the mind transforming, challenging, and sparking other ideas.

Too much of what passes for research today is locked into the early stages of Bloom's Taxonomy and never goes beyond to critical thinking, analysis and integration.

We have little bits of information but it is not going to build our personal bank of knowledge without the comparisons, the contrasts, and the contemplation of their substance.

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On Academic Libraries

Students adopt the values of the schools which they attend. Those values influence what type of person the student becomes. The single greatest potential influence on the success of a student is the library. Students encounter ideas, wrestle with their limitations, and spread their wings in a library. Faculty, staff, administration, boards all have to model the behaviors and values they want to see emerge from their students. They must visit the library, use the library and make sure their students use the resources and professionals housed there. Despite the moves to digitize the world, students have to see those in leadership valuing the campus library as both a place and an idea.